error
- noun
- /ˈɛrər/
- Specialized
- When the program crashed, an error message appeared on the screen.
- error detection
- error correction
- correct errors
If we can't maintain error correction, then that quote is right.
- If we can't maintain error correction, then that quote is right.
- Ask them what the error rate they get on MNIST or Imagenet.
- There again, I would have inherited exactly the sampling bias error that we just observed.
- And to do this error correction, you need more qubits.
Examples
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So for example, you can show the error message like this.
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By the time Vermser realizes his error, it's too late.
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This is why the error rate is just too high.
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If you found a system error, how were you going to fix it?
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But can you reduce the error on your future predictions?
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If you feel you have reached this recording in error, please hang up and dial again.
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Additionally, there is potential for human error, as I sorted the data by hand.
Academic text (2017) -
I've discovered a serious error... ...in the accounts of your last show, Funny Boy.
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A computer error unlocked every cell in block three, the last place you want something like that to happen.
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Yeah, he got his name through a clerical error.
Synonyms
A wrong action or decision
An error in a computer program that makes it not work correctly
A mistake in information or measurement
A problem in a computer that makes it give wrong or unexpected results
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
Solving a problem by trying different ways and learning from mistakes until you succeed
- Specialized
A small mistake in a calculation when you shorten numbers to fewer decimal places
- Specialized
A mistake in computer code that breaks the language rules before the program runs
- Specialized
A problem when a computer cannot open or save files on a disk because the disk is damaged
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A way of adding extra information to data so small errors can be found and fixed
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A health problem passed from parents that makes the body unable to use food properly
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A problem that happens while a program is running because of wrong data or bad instructions
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An unexpected problem that happens while a program runs because of wrong input or actions
- Archaic
A person or side who asks a higher court to change a lower court's decision
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An error in a program's logic that makes it give wrong results even when the code runs without errors
- Specialized
A mistake that happens when a calculation is stopped early and numbers or parts are left out
- Archaic
An official order from a higher court asking a lower court to send trial papers to be checked for mistakes
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Error comes from Latin errare, 'to wander' or 'to stray', and the same root appears in the verb err ('to make a mistake'). So a computer error is when a program 'wanders away' from the right steps and gives a wrong result.